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New Faces, Rising Stars Join Arts and Sciences in Spring 2024

Friday, February 2, 2024, By Dan Bernardi

Adding to the 21 hires in fall 2023, the College of Arts and Sciences welcomes six more new faculty members in spring 2024. From leaders in STEM who are helping to make the world healthier and more sustainable through cutting-edge…

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Award-Winning Jacques Safari Mwayaona G’22 Embraces AI for Learning—With Caution

Thursday, February 1, 2024, By Martin Walls

Combining his background in instructional design with an understanding of diversity and inclusion, Universal Design for Learning and artificial intelligence (AI), Jacques Safari Mwayaona G’22 is making a name for himself in the field of educational development. A Faculty Development…

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Trustee Sharon Barner’s ’79 Historic Gift Names 119 Euclid While Providing Support to Black, First-Generation and Underrepresented Students

Wednesday, January 24, 2024, By John Boccacino

Everywhere Sharon Barner ’79 has worked, she has achieved success at the highest levels of her field—as partner at a law firm, as deputy under secretary of commerce and deputy director of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office in President…

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Maxwell Professor’s Research on Racial and Ethnic Exclusion Supported by Russell Sage Foundation Grant

Friday, January 19, 2024, By Jessica Youngman

Thomas Pearson, assistant professor of economics in the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs, is part of a team of scholars who have been awarded $195,000 from the Russell Sage Foundation to study the exclusion and expulsion of minority…

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How Meeting Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Influenced Rick Wright G’93 and Inspired His Broadcasting Career (Podcast)

Friday, January 12, 2024, By John Boccacino

Roosevelt “Rick” Wright G’93 had a front-row seat as the Civil Rights Movement took off across the American South in the late 1950s and early 1960s, participating in the sit-ins and demonstrations while coming face-to-face with police dogs and fire…

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Art Gallery Will Be Part of Jan. 21 Dr. Martin Luther King Celebration

Friday, January 12, 2024, By Dara Harper

Syracuse University’s 39th Annual Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Celebration will include an art gallery exhibition in Club 44 on the western concourse level of the JMA Wireless Dome. To express the celebration theme of “The Reach of the…

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Talithia Williams to Serve as Featured Speaker for 39th Annual Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Celebration

Tuesday, December 19, 2023, By Dara Harper

Talithia Williams, Ph.D., big data expert, math professor and host of “NOVA Wonders,” will serve as featured speaker at the 39th Annual Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Celebration on Sunday, Jan. 21, in the JMA Wireless Dome. This year’s…

Arts & Culture

Gladstone Gallery Welcomes Carrie Mae Weems H’17; Fall 2024 Exhibition Planned

Tuesday, December 12, 2023, By Diane Stirling

Syracuse University Artist in Residence Carrie Mae Weems H’17 has joined the Gladstone Gallery, where a solo exhibition of her work will be held in Fall 2024. Weems’ four decades of work, including groundbreaking and distinctive compositions of photography, text,…

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School of Architecture Student Creates Film About the Plight of Women

Tuesday, December 12, 2023, By Julie Sharkey

From a young age, Georgia Fernandes ’24, a fifth-year student from Kenya studying in the School of Architecture, has always wanted to tell stories. Fernandes’ desire to create something from scratch, much like architecture, led her to begin writing movie…

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Arts and Sciences Names Gwendolyn Pough Associate Dean of Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Accessibility

Monday, December 11, 2023, By Dan Bernardi

Gwendolyn D. Pough, Dean’s Professor of the Humanities and professor of women’s and gender studies (WGS), has been named the College of Arts and Sciences’ (A&S’) associate dean of diversity, equity, inclusion and accessibility (DEIA). In that role, she will…